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BEST OF 2001-2002
BEST OF 2002-2003
NEWS
Students unite with one voice of hope
Photogallery of
flags and candles remembering September 11,2001 victims
Jewish students walk for Israel
IMPRESSIONS
Students vote matters
A lot of good Lott's apology did!
EXPRESSIONS
Red,
White, & Blue
Constitution supports God and patriotism
One
Numb-er
He
sees you all the time
Vote for the perfect candidate 24-7!
What if Jesus talked football?
Gospel revealed through semantics and word play
Only
the right antidote can protect your life
God's love is alphabetically revealed in random languages
HOTPRESSIONS
Casual sex cheapens a person
PHOTOGALLERY
Photogallery of men's
basketball team plaing Blue-Gold Scrimmage game
Photogallery of homecoming
extravaganza
Photo gallery of Pitt v.s. Notre Dame game highlights
during the Big East opener.
Photo gallery of Pitt students being fired up for Pitt
v.s Notre Dame game
Get to know your Pitt Panther being carried by Oakland
Zoo fans during Pitt v.s. Notre Dame
FEATURE
What Kappa Delta means to me!
Pitt dance team dances into the hearts of Pitt fans
Freshman cheerleaders love their cheerleading
experience
Pitt student experiences love of the Cross Seekers
SPECIAL FEATURE
The top 44 answers to "Camping out for basketball
tickets is like...."
Top 25 reasons of 2002 given by students eating at the
C-side Marketplace for the origins of the candy cane!
Top 14 reasons to
‘Why being in love is beneficial for your health…..”
Top 14 responses to "Love is...." including #1 answer
in many common languages
SPORTS
Lottery fever for basketball tickets reaches O'Hara St
Panther's blowout win over Orangemen begins tough road
ahead
Newspapers
across Pennsylvania cover Pittsburgh Panthers Insight Bowl victory
Pitt athletes and friends come together
Reddy's crazy NFL rankings after the regular season
CONTEST
PS NCAA Tournament
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 Hello, my name is
Ramesh C. Reddy. I am a huge fan of the Pittsburgh Panthers.
As the publisher and student Editor in Chief of the online edition of the Pittsburgh Standard, I would like
to welcome you to the paper. The paper originally started out as a monthly paper
edition serving predominantly the Carnegie Mellon University and the University
of Pittsburgh community. It was funded by the Center for Life and Family to give
students an alternative paper.
It was a pilot program for an entire school year from September
2001-April 2002. We ran the paper without paid advertisements. As of April, the
print edition has stopped but I am so grateful for all the staff that made the
paper possible from the publisher to each writer.
When the paper was not going to be coming anymore, I was a
bit disappointed because I heard wonderful stories of the impact the paper made
in many student’s lives. I did not want that impact to be stifled just because
there was not going to be a print edition.
As the then managing editor of the paper, I took it upon myself to do what
I could so that the paper would continue if not as a paper edition. With this in
mind, I contacted the publisher to see if I could use the Pittsburgh Standard’s
name to run the paper online. Permission rights were given to me to have the
Pittsburgh Standard’s name to run an online edition as long as the Center for
Life and Family would be absolved of having anything to do with the online
edition starting in May 2002 until a future paper edition could return.
An agreement was reached and the Pittsburgh Standard was born on a
commercial site
http://www.pittsburghstandard.com. Just because I decided to start an online
edition of the paper, I did not want people to forget what made this opportunity
possible.
With this in mind, I have
archived all of the paper edition issues from Sept 2001-April 2002 and included
them on the site.
As managing editor of the paper edition, I followed the mission of the
paper set by the staff before I joined. Now as the paper runs as a commercial
site and I was given rights to use the name, I don’t intend to forget what made
the paper successful. If anything, I hope to see the online edition improve over
the paper edition.
I chose to continue with that name because the mission of the online
edition of the paper is to “Write with faith, hope, and love raising the standard for
news and views”
I encourage you all to
look through the archives to see the kind of articles that were covered in
the paper so you can know what the editors and writers made possible. All
of them will be moving on but the Standard will remain. It will
remain to reach out to readers in different ways through the different sections
of the paper.
If you have always wanted
to write and could never find the opportunity to write, I invite you to
come aboard the PS. The online paper can only become better with dedicated
editors and writers who have a passion to use the paper as a means of
public service whether that service includes covering breaking news, writing impressions and expressions to
influence and challenge the public. The paper does not end with those sections
alone for there is more to the paper to reach the public masses. You can reach
me with any questions or comments at
pittsbur@pittsburghstandard.com or
rcrst6@pitt.edu
I would now like to leave you
now with the words of the former Editor-in-Chief, Jeremy Day. He
is the who took upon himself with other members of Chi Alpha Ministries the responsibility of making the print-edition of
the paper a reality and influenced lots of students with the limited staff team
he was able to have.
“As part of our effort to respect and acknowledge all viewpoints, we welcome
comments and submissions. We do this to continually provide a high level of
service and integrity to our readership. We want to give you all the information
you need and want, when you want it. So enjoy yourself as you are looking
through the Pittsburgh Standard and thanks for reading! The mission of our paper
is “To get the truth behind various news stories out into the public’s eye and
educate them in various ways. We will not be biased one way or the other, but we
will always carry the light of truth that comes from Christ. Our hope is to
slowly pull our generation from the quagmire that Hollywood and the media has
seemed to have led us into.”
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July 2004
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